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Can you mention how radiation is measured and how the appropriate amount is determined? Is it rads these days?

April 26, 2017appropriate days measured mention radiation rads

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Can you mention how radiation is measured and how the appropriate amount is determined? Is it rads these days?

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Right now, we are using a term called “a grey”, which is a unit of any absorbed dose. A way to think of it is “time under the radiation beam”, but it really is more complicated than that.